UID:
almafu_9959695982002883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 973 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-05488-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge history of classical literature ; 2
Content:
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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PART 1: Readers and critics -- Book and readers in the Roman world -- Literary criticism -- PART 2: Early republic -- The genesis of poetry in Rome -- Ennius' annales -- Drama -- Prose literature -- The satires of Ennius and Lucilius -- PART 3: Late republic -- Predecessors -- The new direction in poetry -- Lucretius -- Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature -- Sallust -- Caesar -- Prose and mime -- PART 4: The age of augustus -- Uncertainties -- Theocritus and Virgil -- The Georgics -- The Aeneid -- Horace -- Love elegy -- Ovid -- Livy -- Minor figures -- PART 5: Early principate -- Challenge and response -- Persius -- The younger seneca -- Lucan -- Flavian epic -- Martial and juvenal -- Minor poetry -- Prose satire -- History and biography -- Technical writing -- Rhetoric and scholarship -- PART 6 -- Introductory -- Poetry -- Biography -- History -- Oratory and epistolography -- Learning and the past -- Minor figures -- Apuleius -- PART 7: Epilogue.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-21043-7
Language:
English
